Valve’s been tormenting Dota 2 players for a while now. The 7.07 update, The Dueling Fates, was coming, but everyone wondered when. And what would it bring with it? There were teasers, sure, but not much solid information. Finally, Valve has announced the release date for the big update, and it’s soon: November 1. Now […]
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is red hot right now.. Over the weekend, Bluehole’s incredibly popular title surpassed Dota 2′s record number of concurrent players, making it the most-played game in Steam’s history. Bluehole announced earlier this month that more than 10 million copies of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds have been sold since the game’s Early Access debut in March. […]
Valve’s annual Dota 2 championship, The International, will kick off later today. Teams from around the world will compete from August 7-12 for the record-breaking $23 million prize pool–and, you know, bragging rights for being the best at the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) title. The tournament’s prize pool is raised via sales of The […]
Back in late February Valve promised its fans that a printed version of the didgital comics that were produced for Dota 2 are also being created in collaboration with Dark Horse Comics. The initial announcement didn’t mention a release date but it looks like we finally have one anyway. According to an Amazon listing, Dota […]
As part of Dota 2‘s latest Battle Pass, Valve are releasing a new series of documentaries covering the wizard-’em-up’s thriving esports scene. Although the developer has produced a number of short videos to support The International over the last couple of years, this new series—called True Sight—is their most substantial documentary effort since 2013’s Free […]
Dota 2’s latest Battle Pass has arrived, reintroducing daily and weekly challenges, weekend Battle Cups, match wagering, new cosmetics, particle effects and terrain. If that all sounds rather similar to the International Battle Pass, which concluded in late August, then, well—it is. Except it’s green. This is Valve’s least experimental Battle Pass to date, which […]
At the International 2016’s All Star match—a just-for-fun contest between a random assortment of players—Valve have revealed Dota 2’s new hero. The community has been waiting for Underlord—neé Pit Lord—for years. With his addition, Dota 2 is finally feature complete: every single character from the original WarCraft III mod is finally present in Valve’s definitive […]
There’s still over two weeks to go until Dota 2’s flagship tournament The International 2016, but its prize pot has now surpassed last year’s record-breaking total—a whopping $18,580,479, at the time of writing—making it the most lucrative esports competition in history. Since the tournament’s inception in 2011, Valve has provided $1.6 million of its own […]
Special edition Vive HMDs are apparently a thing a now. Valve is selling a limited edition Vive to commemorate “The International,” Valve’s annual DOTA 2 tournament. The limited edition “The International DOTA 2 Championship” HTC Vive is essentially the same hardware package as the original Vive. You get the two base stations, two controllers, and […]
Dota 2 is about to undergo significant changes in the form of the 6.87 gameplay update revealed by Valve earlier today. Foremost among them is a change to Ranked All Pick that incorporates the addition of a 15-second “voting phase” which will take place ahead of the picking phase. Each player will vote for a different […]
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